Re: Another idea for Magnification

2008-03-10 Thread JGJones
Just wondering... How is the Compiz's Zoom function for you? - I've mapped it to use the (Win) key and so while I press the Windows key, and then scroll the mouse wheel up - it'll zoom into around the cursor smoothly as much as you want and the screen moves around with the cursor. You can zoo

Another idea for Magnification

2008-03-10 Thread Richard Powell
All, I've been using GNOME for almost 10 years now. In 2003 I became legally blind (visually impaired). Since that time I have had to use a combination of tricks to allow me to see the screen well enough to use it. These "tricks" have included low resolution display setting, large monitors,

ANNOUNCE: mousetweaks 2.22.0

2008-03-10 Thread Francesco Fumanti
Hello, This is the announcement for the release of mousetweaks 2.22.0, our first stable release in GNOME. Thanks to everybody who contributed with making it happen. === What is mousetweaks ? === The mousetweaks package provides the functions offered

Accerciser 1.2.0 released

2008-03-10 Thread Eitan Isaacson
Hey hey, This is to announce the release of Accerciser 1.2.0. Our second major stable release! Accerciser is an interactive Python accessibility explorer for the GNOME desktop. It uses AT-SPI to inspect and control widgets, allowing you to check if an application is providing correct information

Re: Ang: Re: [Kde-accessibility] Applications

2008-03-10 Thread Willie Walker
Hi Mats: Klavaro has this listed on its web page: "The graphical interface of Klavaro is based on other program called "GTK+ 2" (not really a program, but a set of libraries)." So, I'm going to guess it should work within the AT-SPI environment. I've not tried it with Orca, though, so I don't

ANNOUNCE: gail 1.22.0

2008-03-10 Thread Li Yuan
=== * What is gail? === GAIL provides accessibility support for gtk+ by implementing AtkObjects for widgets in gtk+. The GAIL library is a GTK+ module. * What's changed for gail 1.22.0? ==

ANNOUNCE: atk 1.22.0

2008-03-10 Thread Li Yuan
=== * What is atk? === The interface definitions of accessibility infrastructure. * What's changed for atk 1.22.0? Translation update. = * Where can I ge

ANNOUNCE: at-spi 1.22.0

2008-03-10 Thread Li Yuan
=== * What is at-spi? === at-spi (assistive technology service provider interface) is the primary assistive technology infrastructure for the Solaris and Linux operating environments. Applications and toolkits supporting the AT-SPI include the GNOME GTK+ to

Re: Thoughts on speech

2008-03-10 Thread Tomas Cerha
Hello all, good to get to a constructive discussion! Ok, so about Speech Dispatcher... as the name may suggest, its most important function is message dispatching -- management, synchronization and serialization of speech requests comming simultaneously from different sources within the system.